Posted on 10/14/2003 1:12:52 PM PDT by VU4G10
| The U.S. unemployment rate today is at the highest level in 20 years. |
| Millions of hard-working Americans who are desperate for jobs can't find them, and both the short term and long term prospects do not bode well for many American workers. The economic problems we face would be bad enough if all we had to contend with were a recovering economy, the continued threat of terrorism, and increased competition from foreign companies. But a Congress that should be looking for ways to help unemployed Americans is busy opening the floodgates to millions of new immigrants who take jobs away from Americans - and also helping companies take the remaining jobs offshore. It almost appears that our government is committed to making sure everybody in the world has a job - except Americans. Historically, the U.S. admitted around 300,000 legal immigrants per year, but Congress changed our immigration policies back around 1965 and opened the floodgates. We now allow more than a MILLION legal immigrants into the country each year. A small number of these are refugees; some have special skills not easily found here. But an increasingly large percentage of those pouring through our borders are undereducated, unskilled workers who threaten the income of blue-collar workers, the backbone of America. Millions more come here each year ILLEGALLY, and the government does nothing to stop that either. It's no secret that most immigrants - legal and illegal - come to the United States for a single reason: money. They know that no matter what a job pays here, it will be far more than they could ever hope to earn in their own country. A job in America is a ticket to what appears to them to be a fortune, letting them live better than they could have imagined at home. It's also no secret that those same immigrants will underbid any American for any job. Their arrival by the thousands corresponds directly with thousands of Americans being pushed out of a job. In effect, every visa given to an unskilled foreigner is really a pink slip handed to a hard-working American. Worse yet, the pink slips are being handed to Americans by their own government, paid for with their own tax money! And the cost of this flood of immigration is not just being borne by those who lose their jobs. American taxpayers are increasingly funding the health, education and welfare of millions of immigrants at a cost of tens of billions of dollars per year. The Federation for American Immigration Reform recently released a report that detailed the fact that educating illegal alien children is costing the U.S. over $7 billion a year - enough to buy a computer for every middle school child in America. Health care for the two million illegals in California runs in the billions of dollars a year; and it is estimated that the annual health care costs of delivering illegal alien children in Denver, Colorado alone is in excess of ten million dollars. All of these costs are borne by American taxpayers. Clearly, we have a broken system, one that lets hundreds of thousands of unskilled immigrants - legal and illegal - into the United States at random to take American jobs, stifle the American economy, and put little or nothing back into strained local, state and federal tax coffers. This has to end. Congress needs to immediately enforce our immigration laws to stop the flood of illegal immigration and change our outdated laws to reduce legal immigration back to more manageable numbers. A step in the right direction is a bill introduced by Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, H.R. 775, which would end the totally unnecessary visa lottery program. It would help give us a "time out" while we assess other ways to manage immigration into this country. America has always been a land of opportunity and a nation of immigrants. But when the opportunity is for today's flood of immigrants to put Americans on the unemployment line, our system is out of whack. Instead of maintaining policies that hand out pink slips to America, Congress needs to get serious about stopping illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration to reasonable levels that will allow the millions who have flooded into this country in recent years to assimilate. Every day of delay is another stack of pink slips for Americans. |
Bump for the troll.
I'd love that too but sadly there isn't a chance of it happening. I think the best we can hope for is some kind of guest worker legislation -- and even that will be fought tooth and nail by corporate special interests and the Democrats who want new voters.
Like that hypocrite Tancredo.
Everyone agrees, except liberals. Vote Republican.
The immigrant-unemployment issue is just a symptom of the overall problem. The Federal government is paralyzed by political infighting, corruption, immorality, and lack of vision. Our government, institutions, and educational systems have been invested by those who are enemies of the principals on which this country was founded. Those enemies are bent on destroying, by any means possible, our way of life. Sowing discord, disharmony and attempting to destroy the principals that have enabled this country to achieve its greatness is their basic game plan. The attacks on religion, morality, the family and any organization that supports those institutions is evidence of their activity. The tactics of racial, sexual, age, religious, ideological polarisation, and greed are the enemy's tools.
We are over-taxed, over-regulated, lied to, and abused by our collective local, state, and federal governments.
At this point I have to ask myself is it worth recovering or do we need to just start over? Will the coming revolution be peaceful or violent?
Make no mistake. There will be a revolution. It's just a question of when, how, and what type. Either that or we can just sink into the mass of other socialist states and the coming gloom of one worldwide tyrannical superstate and resultant total loss of individualism.
Depressing, isn't it? But we need to face the truth.
You are correct to point out this little-recognized phenomenon. After all, these foreign-born managers, being foreign-born, are not held to the same EEOC standards … they know it’s OK to discriminate against a white American male (especially if he’s a Christian.)
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